Fort Worth Daily Gazette

The continued rains mean good to Texas.

The Fort will welcome Mr. Dahlman "home again from a foreign shore."

West Texas will support no dead-line politician for governor of Texas. This information is reliable.

The Gazette's namesake at McKinney says: "The Fort Worth Gazette is getting better and better."

Alexander Hamilton is a member of the federal naval advisory board, so, it seems, all this uproar about Burr was out of place.

The men who have been running the machine are against Swain, but there are good indications that they will be given a furlough this year.

We violate no confidence in whispering that Col. John M. Claiborne will not figure as conspicuously in politics this year as he erstwhile did.

Alabama has broken the universal precedent by nominating a Democratic candidate for governor who was a private in the army. Texas has a good example to follow.

It is interesting to note how the Ross boomlet and the Breckenridge boomlet are leaning up to each other. Neither evidently fears any danger from the other.

The prominent candidate for a high state office who has been furnishing the money to buy up veterans' and Confederate certificates to locate on Greer county lands will have to hustle to protect himself.

The servant girls of St. Louis are being organized into assemblies of Knights of Labor. And why not? If there is any good to follow from such organizations, do not workingwomen need it as much as workingmen?

It is announced that Capt. Thos F. West of Jacksboro is a candidate for the state senate. Capt. West has many friends in Fort Worth, and if this city has no favorite son to offer for the place, Capt. West's friends here will be increased.

Since the introduction of the whipping-post in Maryland for wife-beaters, that crime has considerably decreased. The whipping-post may be a relic of barbarism, but such barbarians as wife-beaters can only be reached by some such means.

With all the celebrations going on in Texas this year, it was in bad spirit to omit to celebrate the semi-centennial of our independence. Yet, beyond closing the banks and a few business houses on our fiftieth birthday, no attention was given to it.

Another campaign of misery is to be the portion of the Massachusetts Republicans. Ben Butler is going to run for governor again. If Ben lives much longer, and keeps on running for governor, the Massachusetts people will want to make him president to get rid of him.

As the returns come in it becomes more and more apparent that Swain will have an easy nomination for governor. The longer the people reflect the stronger their conviction that political opinions and political courage are better recommendations for the governorship than a double handful of forty-year-old jokes.

The Texas railroads have uniformly been generous in giving reduced rates to visitors to any center of attraction in the state, but they have fairly outdone themselves in their rates to the military encampments at Lampasas and Galveston. The charges will not, probably, pay the cost of transportation. Still, the railroads will continue to be damned by everybody who can't get a free pass.

The attack made by Randall and Holman on civil-service reform is accepted by a great many boodle politicians as an evidence that the Democratic party is sick of the law. But the Democratic congressmen sustained it by a practically unanimous vote against Randall and Holman. Do those two men represent more Democrats than all the other members of congress?

In the vote by states, without reference to politics, on the Morrison bill, majorities were cast for it by Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Connecticut was evenly divided. Louisiana was the only Democratic state that voted against the bill, and Minnesota the only Republican state that voted for it.

It would be a good idea for the dark lantern candidates to define their positions on the questions that agitate the state. How will the candidate for the legislature vote when he is called upon to do his part in making laws? Is he for or against prohibition, for free grass or lease law, and who will he support for United States senator? These are pretty important questions, and the people would like to know how candidates are going to act before they get into office.